Bogey
Jolly Good Fellow
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I have seen opinions in the late spring and preseason fall where our offense is so much ahead of last year, that we were unstoppable, our OL is much better, so on and so on, by people that should know. I ask myself what is the situation and I have come down to 3 possibilities.
1) The offense is worse than last year. I disregard this as we have supposedly a better OL than last year and we still have JN and JD. I don't subscribe to the 3 games in 12 days theory but there are other possibilities. Maybe too tired after fall camp, some virus going around, who knows for sure.
2) Both Clemson (which we should have lost to except for a fake field goal) and Miami have upgraded in personnel and coaching and we have not This is a fact. Clemson had 3 guys with 4.3 speed and we were trying to play a high school safety with 4.5 speed at corner in his 2nd game. The new OC at Miami is miles above Patrick Nix. Both of these teams are at the very top of the ACC. I don't think Womack is on this level yet.
3) The competition has caught up to our offense, particularly if they have athletic DL's. I also put some credence into this thought. I don't know for sure, but I doubt if PJ has ever coached against 3 teams with as much talent and coaching ability as our last 3 D-1 opponents.
To me, if PJ doesn't evolve his offense into something that can compete on this level, and make some tough decisions on defense as far as coaching goes, we are in for real long term trouble. But I do think he can and will, but probably not this year. But there is still hope if we can get our act going and beat UNC and VPI and make a run of it. I hope I am surprised and still have a lot of confidence in PJ. Anyway, as we all know, Saturday is a crucial game for us with a team more on our level talent wise at this stage in our program. As my wife tells me, "we shall see".
1) The offense is worse than last year. I disregard this as we have supposedly a better OL than last year and we still have JN and JD. I don't subscribe to the 3 games in 12 days theory but there are other possibilities. Maybe too tired after fall camp, some virus going around, who knows for sure.
2) Both Clemson (which we should have lost to except for a fake field goal) and Miami have upgraded in personnel and coaching and we have not This is a fact. Clemson had 3 guys with 4.3 speed and we were trying to play a high school safety with 4.5 speed at corner in his 2nd game. The new OC at Miami is miles above Patrick Nix. Both of these teams are at the very top of the ACC. I don't think Womack is on this level yet.
3) The competition has caught up to our offense, particularly if they have athletic DL's. I also put some credence into this thought. I don't know for sure, but I doubt if PJ has ever coached against 3 teams with as much talent and coaching ability as our last 3 D-1 opponents.
To me, if PJ doesn't evolve his offense into something that can compete on this level, and make some tough decisions on defense as far as coaching goes, we are in for real long term trouble. But I do think he can and will, but probably not this year. But there is still hope if we can get our act going and beat UNC and VPI and make a run of it. I hope I am surprised and still have a lot of confidence in PJ. Anyway, as we all know, Saturday is a crucial game for us with a team more on our level talent wise at this stage in our program. As my wife tells me, "we shall see".
